Background Sentinel lymph node biopsy (SLNB) is the currently accepted standard of care for axillary staging in breast cancer (BRCa). The practice of SLNB in BRCa is limited in Ethiopia and the Eastern part of Africa. This study aimed to review a single institution's experien...
1071 breast cancer patients were referred for sentinel node biopsy between January 2004 and December 2011. Metastases were found in 245 of the removed lymph nodes. In 49 patients lymph node changes turned out to be micrometastases or isolated tumor cells (ITC). ALND was performed in 38 cases ...
Local recurrences were observed in 6 patients (10%), and this clinical impression was confirmed by biopsy in 4 patients. Thirteen patients (22%) died of causes related to prostate cancer. The biochemical relapse-free, clinical disease-free, overall, and cause-specific survival rates at 5 years...
Sentinel lymph node biopsy in women with breast cancer has become routine in many surgical practices; yet basic questions regarding the procedure remain un... RL White,LG Wilke - 《Am Surg》 被引量: 127发表: 2004年 Impact of Immediate Versus Delayed Axillary Node Dissection on Surgical Outcomes...
Adenocarcinoma of the Breast Presenting as Occult Breast Cancer With Axillary and Supraclavicular Lymph Node Metastasis: A Case Report She underwent fine needle aspiration of the mass, which showed atypical cells that led to an excisional biopsy of the detected axillary node. The biopsy... AA Espi...
of cases was received US-FNA.With the pathology of sentinel lymph node biopsy(SLNB)or axillary lymph node dissection(ALND)as a gold standard,the diagnostic value of US-FNA in axillary lymph nodes of breast cancer and the correlation between the results of puncture and axillary lymph nodes were...
Flow Diagram View LargeDownload BC indicates breast cancer; DIN, ductal intraepithelial neoplasia; ITT, intention to treat; LIN, lobular intraepithelial neoplasia; and SLNB, sentinel lymph node biopsy. Figure 2. Kaplan-Meier Estimates of Distant Disease–Free Survival, Disease-Free Survival, and ...
The SN can be identified in a high percentage of cases and indicates the presence of metastases with a high sensitivity. Gamma detection probe tracing of SN's is superior to the conventional dye method.doi:info:doi/10.1016/0959-8049(95)95889-EB. B. R. Kroon...
Low Risk of Development of a Regional Recurrence After an Unsuccessful Repeat Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy in Patients with Ipsilateral Breast Tumor Recurrence Methods Data were obtained from the Sentinel Node and Recurrent Breast Cancer (SNARB) study. In 239 patients, the rSLNB was unsuccessful, of...
The sentinel lymph node biopsy (SLNB) is now an accepted alternative to the axillary lymph node dissection for pathologic evaluation of the axilla in patie... VKM Tan,BKP Goh,S Fook-Chong,... - 《Journal of Surgical Oncology》 被引量: 96发表: 2011年 Nutritional status and quality of lif...